Layer 2 Ethereum protocol Optimism officially removes Whitelist, will allow devs to deploy directly on its mainnet

Happy Friday, everyone! The global crypto market cap is $2.17 trillion with a 24-hour volume of $101.

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Happy Friday, everyone! The global crypto market cap is $2.17 trillion with a 24-hour volume of $101.23 billion. The price of Bitcoin is $46,728.43 and the BTC dominance is at 40.7%. The best performing cryptoasset sector is Debit Card, which gained 2%.

Layer 2 Ethereum protocol Optimism officially removes Whitelist, will allow devs to deploy directly on its mainnet Optimism has officially removed the Whitelist feature from its network allowing developers to directly deploy smart contracts on its mainnet. cryptoslate.com

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Peter McCormack acquires a local football club and reveals his agenda–"with Bitcoin at its heart" to the EPL  Famous Bitcoin bull Peter McCormack recently revealed that he became a proud owner of Bedford FC, a local football club in the UK. cryptoslate.com

UK watchdog bans seven crypto ads failing to highlight potential trading risks In a bid to promote ethical crypto trading in the country, the UK's advertising watchdog has banned seven cryptocurrency advertisements of leading crypto companies due to their inability to "illustrate the risk of the investment." Leading crypto companies such as Etoro, Exmo, Coinburp, and Luno had to face ASA's crackdown for: "Irresponsibly taking advantage of […] cryptoslate.com

AWS' latest outage, a stark reminder of the dangers of Big Tech and urgent need for Web3: IoTeX Co-Founder Xinxin Fan Amazon Web Services' (AWS) latest outage that for hours saw some folks in the United States locked out their homes, crypto exchanges powered down, and many other regrettable incidents is a stark reminder of those risks. cryptoslate.com

Russia's central bank wants to prohibit crypto investments: report The central bank of Russia (Centrobank) is reportedly seeking to bar the country's residents from buying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, two anonymous financial market sources revealed to Reuters today. cryptoslate.com

Op-Ed: The real reason El Salvador adopted Bitcoin Bukele argues that his country's embrace of Bitcoin aims to spur development and reduce the fees paid by Salvadorans abroad sending remittances back home, which make up nearly a quarter (22%) of El Salvador's GDP. cryptoslate.com

Rug pulls pushed this year's crypto scam revenue over $7.7 billion, Chainalysis finds Scams again emerged as the dominant form of cryptocurrency-based crime by transaction volume, a preview of Chainalysis' Crypto Crime Report revealed. cryptoslate.com

Marvel fans blast the use of Stan Lee's Twitter to promote Chakra The Invincible NFTs Tuesday this week saw a tweet from the official Stan Lee Twitter promoting a new collection of Chakra The Invincible NFTs. cryptoslate.com

Kraken to join list of exchanges launching a NFT marketplace In recent times, centralized exchanges are stepping up efforts into breaking into the NFT space with a number of new initiatives. The post Kraken to join list of exchanges launching a NFT marketplace appeared first on CryptoSlate. cryptoslate.com

Sotheby rakes $100 million profit from NFT auctions While blockchain technology has been with us for the best part of the last decade, 2021 is unarguably the year that saw a widespread adoption of some of the use-cases of the technology like its use in crypto, non-fungible tokens (NFT) and even in decentralized finance (DeFi). cryptoslate.com

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